Author Archives: Syndicated Content
BOJ debated room for stimulus tweaks with eye on long battle with pandemic
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan policymakers kicked off discussions in October on ways to make their massive stimulus programme more sustainable, with one member calling for a tweak to...
Dec 22, 2020
Mexico data protection agency challenges taxpayer data reform
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican agency in charge of public information access and data protection on Tuesday said it would launch a Supreme Court challenge against recent changes to the fiscal cod...
Dec 22, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 318,569 total deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 17,974,303 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 183,927 cases from its previous count, and said the number...
Dec 22, 2020
Trump says he wants Congress to amend COVID-19 relief bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants Congress to amend the coronavirus relief bill to raise the amount of stimulus checks and eliminate wasteful spending, among other...
Dec 22, 2020
South Korea reports 1,092 new coronavirus cases - KDCA
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported 1,092 new coronavirus cases as of Tuesday midnight, the second highest since the start of the pandemic, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on W...
Dec 22, 2020
Biden to nominate Miguel Cardona for Secretary of Education
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Connecticut education official Miguel Cardona for Secretary of Education, his transition team said in a statement on Tuesday. Cardona would be ...
Dec 22, 2020
Cargill to reopen Canadian beef plant after coronavirus outbreak
(Reuters) - Cargill Inc plans to begin reopening its Guelph, Ontario beef processing plant next week on Tuesday, days after it closed the facility due to an outbreak of COVID-19 infections among worke...
Dec 22, 2020
Trump grants full pardon to Russia probe figure George Papadopoulos
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russ...
Dec 22, 2020
Wealth gap yawns wide between UK's ethnic groups - think tank
LONDON (Reuters) - People of Black African ethnicity in Britain typically have just one eighth of the wealth of white British people, an economic think tank said, calling for reforms to narrow the wea...
Dec 22, 2020
Mainland China reports 15 new COVID-19 cases, unchanged from day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 15 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 22, the same as a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission, in ...
Dec 22, 2020
